Overdosed Conjoined Carnies

Overdosed Conjoined Carnies

Depiction:

In only giving passing mention of last
month’s two political conventions, I was going to give an in depth
compositional juxtaposition utilizing side-by-side comparisons of event
contrasts and how the resultant outcomes affected the Democratic National
Convention (DNC) and the Republican National Convention (RNC). However, so much
has transpired since the conventions’ elapsed time, I instead will focus more
on the current developments. But due to the variable contrasts as so
distinctive, I’ll relay a stark, but brief synopsis between the two.

First off, the RNC centered on speeches,
comments and chants of ‘locking up’ or even executing ‘crooked’ Hillary while
the DNC primarily remained on substance. With the initial RNC roll call of
delegate votes causing a raucous rift between Trump and anti-Trump states that erupted
into chaos roaring throughout the GOP convention. The DNC had an initial
dissonant exchange between Hillary and Bernie delegates after the hacked
Democratic National Committee e-mails were revealed at the same instance the
convention commenced. With Bernie Sanders’ great aid, the Democrat convention
managed the turmoil quite nicely, as it did not disrupt the rest of the
convention. Once the convention was over, the e-mails were hardly even an
afterthought.

Mr. Khizr Kahn visiting his Arlington Cemetery son's gravesite

The Republican convention pretty much
was centered around fear mongering and spiteful ‘crooked’ Hillary rants while at the Democrat convention, there were
swipes directed at Trump, but the swipes could be backed up with substance of
exactly what trump has stated like building the wall, incarcerating then
deporting all eleven million immigrants and swearing he saw Muslims in New
Jersey on television cheering for the 9/11 attack.

One of the highlights in the
GOP convention was Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech in stealing a large swath
of Michelle’s former speech. Of all the folk to plagiarize, she picks Michelle
Obama’s 2008 convention speech. This must have had a heartfelt warming
sensation to all the right-wingers that literally despise the Obamas’.

Of course Republicans attempted to put
spin on it, even tried to say that First Lady Michele stole the speech herself
from Saul Alinsky; it never panned out though, just more Republican fodder
rumors.

But for Republicans to have criticized
Michele Obama’s own words as grunge when she gave them, only to praise
Michele’s words when they were copied and regurgitated out of a white
Republican woman’s mouth is priceless in revealing the biased idiocy.

On the right hand in the GOP convention,
you had House Speaker Paul Ryan, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), RNC Chair
Reince Priebus, right-wing commentator Laura Ingraham, Wisconsin Governor Scott
Walker, Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell
Jr., retired Army General Mike Flynn, U.S. Senator from Arkansas Tom Cotton,
former governor of Texas Rick Perry and for sure U.S. Senator from Texas Ted
Cruz whom all gave no substantive speeches, but instead enlisted rants, biased
rhetoric, or conducted self-promotion. In fact some like Giuliani left the
podium foaming at the mouth.

Where were all the superstars in movies
and sports promised by Trump? Instead, we got Scott Baio and Antonio Sabato Jr.
as pretty much washed up B-actors and little known professional golfer, Natalie
Gulbis.

Tom Brady and Tim Tebow, who are or were
NFL quarterbacks, backed out of their GOP invites as did a slew of actors.

Although there was much complaining
carried out by Republicans for the Democrat convention having black mothers of
unarmed children killed by cops be represented with their presence and
speeches, it didn’t bother them a bit to parade Pat Smith, mother of Sean Smith
killed in Benghazi and let her exhort her thoughts on the podium of why her son
died in utilizing Republican political rhetoric. She’s now attempting to sue
Hillary and the Obama administration for negligence in her son’s death, but as
in all the wasted GOP investigations have deadpanned, so too will this lawsuit.
It’s simply an amazing thing that Republicans are still attempting to raise
political donations off of Benghazi and the deaths of those four Americans.
They even had a propagandized video of Benghazi after Mrs. Smith’s speech.

On the left hand though, First Lady
Michelle Obama gave an eloquent performance that by far was the highlight
speech of both conventions. Vice-president Joe Biden, retired Marine General
John Allen along with his entourage of military backers, Bernie Sanders, gold
star parent Khizr Kahn, factory worker Beth Mathias, Jake Reed, Jensen Walcott,
Henrietta Ivey, injured in the 9/11 attack Lauren Manning, former congresswoman
Gabby Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly, U.S. Senator Al Franken
(D-MN), U.S. Representatives injured Iraqi veteran Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and
Joe Kennedy (D-MA), Independent Michael Bloomberg, U.S. chamber of Commerce
official and co-founder of ‘Republican Women for Hillary’ Jennifer Pierotti Lim,
former Ronald Reagan administration official Doug Elmet and President Obama all
gave above average admirable speeches.

Due to health issues, former President Jimmy
Carter gave a compelling video speech. His two and a half minute speech is
below.

All three living Democrat presidents
gave speeches at their convention. But where were any past Republican
presidents at the GOP convention? They made it a point not to attend in person
or on video.

I know Kahn’s Constitutional speech
ranks high and most likely Trump has never read the U.S. Constitution in whole,
but I’d like to take note here of another speech that closely parallels the
‘Sermon on the Mount’. This one speech that wasn’t political in nature at all
was Reverend William Barber’s. It was inspirational and if you’d like to watch
it, the C-SPAN video is below.

In stark contrast, Evangelist Falwell
Jr’s speech over at the GOP convention was a tad vile. He recalled a dream of
his father’s, the Evangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. As he recalled the mythical
vision, Jr relayed his father’s dream of Chelsea Clinton interviewing him,
where Chelsea asked what were the three greatest threats to America. Jr
continued in saying his father said, “The three greatest threats facing this
nation: Osama, Obama and yo mamma. Chelsea’s mamma…you’re fired!”

I’m just supposing Jr thought this was
cute as the right-wing crowd lapped it up, but it is a tad on the vile side in
being racist and superimposing Obama as Muslim, as if anything would be wrong
with that; it’s just that it is to a crowd full of Republicans.

Although absent at the GOP convention, just
to mention a few of the superstars that appeared at the Democrat convention,
there was: actresses America Fererra, Lena Dunham, ‘Disney Channel’ prodigy
Demi Levato, Star Jones, Angela Bassett, Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep. Pop
stars who performed at convention events were Lenny Kravitz, Cindi Lauper, Kate
Perry and Alicia Keyes, among others.

Desperate Housewives star, Eva Longoria
gave a convention speech, who said at the convention she is a ninth generation
American, and that her family, originally from Mexico, “didn't cross the border, it crossed us,” while the legendary folk
rock star, Paul Simon performed ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’.

Rounding it all off, NBA basketball legend,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gave a speech opening up with some light humor and then
gave a good ol’ fashioned American history lesson. His two and a half minute
C-SPAN video speech is below.

Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech
certainly wasn’t an unforgettable one, but the Donald’s prompter speech if not
boring was loaded with dire consequences if he’s not elected due to Islamic
terrorism, refugees and immigrants taking us over.

Most like to say that the conventions
aren’t really what voters pay attention to, but for this election cycle, I
disagree. Trump got a modest 4.5% bump in polling after the Republican
convention, but Hillary got a bump into double digits that has been maintained
ever since the Democrat convention. They say it is the debates that truly
matter. Well, maybe so, but going into the debates that Trump is already
hem-hawing about in canceling his participation, having a double digit lead is
a very comfortable margin for any politician. Trump must perform a most
admirable showing, which he has not done yet and there will be no
teleprompters, so he’ll be on his own armed only with rehearsals in which he
invariably will go off on, sifting into tangents as he’s always done.

To put it all in perspective, while the
GOP convention’s overall message, besides locking up Hillary, was clamant
measures enlisting fear of terrorism and guns taken away as the primary
objective in voting Republican. The Democrat convention was uplifting in
messaging hope based on policy and substance.

So terrorism and guns are the GOPs
bullet points. Really? All Americans should put terrorism as fear number one
when on median average (whether by accident, suicide or homicide) over 105 Americans
are killed per day by privately owned guns? That adds up to 38, 000 Americans
dying yearly due strictly to our own firearms. Seriously, an American has a
1:11,668 chance of being killed by an Islamic terrorist than by home grown
firearm violence. This is based on the ‘Center for Disease Control’ (CDC)
statistics where from 2005-2015, 24 Americans were killed by terrorists while
280,024 were killed by home grown gun violence.

In fact, in all of 2015 in the U.S.,
toddlers, aged three and under killed more Americans with home guns than
terrorists did. The total count of 2015 toddler shooting deaths was 21. The
total number of U.S. deaths by terrorists, including the Chattanooga and San Bernardino
shootings was 19.

Even more Americans were killed by cows
per year in that decade on average than by a terrorist act at 20/yr. as opposed
to terrorism of 3.2/yr. If ya want to be fearful, then be very afraid of farmer
Jones’ moo cow standing out in that pasture just waiting for an opportunity to
strike. Logically, it makes more sense to the odds-makers.

Don’s
Plum:

Have ya ever heard of ‘Don’s Plum’? Most
likely ya haven’t, for it was a low budget movie that never made it to the theaters.
Leonardo Di Caprio and Tobey Maguire starred in it and thought that the film
was so bad that they sued to never have it shown in the U.S. Well, there’s
another Don that’s so bad in his acting performances, someone might want to
lasso a lawsuit around him to make him stick more to facts rather than spouting
out constant rhetorical slanders. We all know the Don of whom we’re speaking of
here right? Come on sure ya do. It’s Donald J. Trump.

In Trump and some Republican supporters
demeaning the Gold Star Kahn family, then justify it in insinuating the father,
Khizr Kahn is trying to gin-up notoriety off his soldier son’s death is
egregious.

Trump in any other worldly contest of
import would be considered a loudmouth imbecile that speaks only in simple
terms of what he’ll do without any elaboration on how he’ll do it. Of course
Trump acts this way because he knows his support base, which is intentionally ignorant
of facts, only wants to hear of what will stoke their misguided beliefs.

It is simply an amazing thing how Trump will
complain in insinuating what his opponent is, when the complaint actually fits
around his own neck. Whether it’s being accused of being a bully, slandering,
or a bigot, he invariably displays these components, but yet declares that is indubitably
what his opponent is. Below are a few for instances:

Trump bellows out that China is ground
zero for unfair trade practices and will bring back all American companies that
have fled there to manufacture goods. He just might want to start with his own
corporations. Watch the video below to see how he’s busted by David Letterman.

Of course Trump claims he can’t bring
his businesses back to the U.S. because there are no longer any American
manufacturers, but in the video below, this manager in the U.S. garment
industry begs to differ.

Trump is simply like all other American
corporations; he’s chose the source of cheapest labor.

Trump vociferously shouts out that
Hillary is a bigot. No sound reasoning, just that her policies have miserably
failed minorities because as he said to Anderson Cooper on CNN
08/25/2016...she’s lazy. He’s even doubled down on this venture.

Of all people...for Trump to accuse
someone else of being a bigot would be a laughing matter if not for its bogus
accusation. Trump is the square peg in showing out loud bigotry. I really
needn’t remind anyone of his, not only bigoted, but racist stances; although, I
will anyway.

A)Let’s see, Trump
has insinuated, even declared that all Latino illegal immigrants are criminals,
rapists and murderers.

B)Bypass
how Americans condemned the Berlin Wall only to build America one much taller
and electrified along the Mexican border.

C)That
an American federal judge with Mexican lineage is not fit to oversee his Trump
University lawsuit case.

E)That
all Muslims should be banned from entering the states even if they are American
citizens wanting to reenter after visiting abroad.

F)Denying
that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has a legitimate claim to police killings of unarmed
minorities preferring instead to call them thugs and criminals.

G)Trump was sued
and paid out an unknown sum to would be Black tenants in his apartment
complexes by marking their applications with a ‘C’ for colored. The ‘C’ was a
flag not to rent to or kick out. The superintendent said he was only doing what
he was told to do. Trump denies it of course and blames it all on the
superintendent.

Today, in wanting their votes, Trump in
his own insane way is trying to reach out to African Americans by telling them, “What the hell do you have to lose.” Meanwhile
he hires a white nationalist in Steve Bannon to run his campaign.

Most right-wingers like that in Bannon’s
far right leanings, but minorities certainly don’t. What right-wingers won’t
like though once they truly find out, is that Bannon rents his Washington, D.C.
mansion from a Muslim. Yes that’s correct; Brietbart News has a Muslim
landlord.

The so-called ‘Breitbart Embassy’
mansion where website staff works in the basement and Bannon lives in the rest
is owned by an Egyptian Muslim named, Mostafa El-Gindy. Bannon claims he owns
it, but tax statements and revenues state that Gindy does. As a former member
of the Egyptian parliament, Gindy has received very complimentary coverage from
‘Breitbart News’. Got to keep the landlord happy ya know...

Just this August 28th Trump
sends out a tweet as stated above. The problem is Hillary has already given a
full medical and detailed report from her doctor; even gave details of her
health’s history. She’s a healthy 68-yr-old. On the other hand Trump has
released a medical report that was written in five minutes without the doctor
examining him.

The doctor who filed Trump’s medical
health report is Dr. Harold Bornstein, a digestive tract doctor. His report was
so elementary that other doctors questioned it. He claims he wrote it where
Trump could understand it and also expressed it was hurriedly written due to
the folks in the limousine impatiently waiting on it.

Trump/Dr. Harold Bornstein

Now with the entire Republican conspiracy
clamor that Hillary is too ill to be president, Donald Jr feels that she is too
old as well by tweeting her as “grandma.”
I dunno man, since Hillary is 68 and
Donald is 70, maybe that makes Donald Sr a great grandpa.

Besides, if Hillary is too ill and old
to be president, why did Trump suddenly cancel four events in the states of
Oregon, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona without explanation except for blaming it
all on the flooding in Louisiana?

Trump banters not of Mrs. Clinton, but
on Bill Clinton’s past devious deeds with women. From Jennifer Flowers to
Monica Lewinsky, he makes sure these episodes aren’t forgotten in hopes that it
will reflect negatively on Hillary with female voters. Then he immediately
turns around and hires Roger Aisles who is the former Fox News CEO resigning in
disgrace because of an array of sexual harassment charges from the network’s
female staff.

Trump himself has been under several
sexual assault charges and one federal lawsuit just filed by ‘Jane Doe’ claims Trump
and his longtime friend Jeffrey Epstein raped her as a sex slave repeatedly in
1994 under an original premise of Epstein offering her a modeling career.

She claims Trump was the first and
continued his acts three more times for a total of four rapes. In 1994, Jane
Doe was thirteen, so using a defense of consensual agreement, as he has in other
cases will not work this time, for she is considered at the time, an underage
child at 13-yrs-old.

New York has a five year statute of
limitation. Definitely this April 2016 filing is well past 1994 at 22 years,
but since the claimant and witness testified that Trump had threatened them and
their families with bodily harm or death and in considering her duress in both
the men’s large caches of money and power she kept quiet. In other words, she
was a kid scared to death. So the limitation may be struck down.

What is really sad during the initial
hearings in this case is this document relating to Trump first raping her, “Defendent Epstein then attempted to strike
me about the head with his closed fists while he angrily screamed at me that
he, Defendent Epstein, should have been the one who took my virginity, not
Defendent Trump.”

This has been reviewed by Lisa Bloom, a
legal NBC analyst and comments that it is credible court testimony.

Now I’m not condoning Willy Clinton’s
extramarital affairs while condemning Trump for his; I’m just saying Trump
might just want to keep a low brow on bringing up Bill Clinton’s for he has
done exactly more of the same and it is him and Hillary running for the
presidency, not Willy. But I’m sure Trump will continue along on his foray of
this crude adventure in vain attempts to keep women from remembering what he
has called women; such as “fat pigs,”
“slobs,” “dogs,” “disgusting animals”
and references to their menstrual cycles.

Trump forever likes to refer to Hillary
as “Crooked Hillary” or “Criminal Hillary” but he and his
campaign claims it is Hillary who started the name calling when it comes to the
word “bigot.” Just this past Sunday
(08/28/2016) on the morning political shows, Trump’s newly installed campaign
manager Kellyanne Conway and RNC head Reince Priebus respectively said that
Trump doesn’t insult and acts mature. The Trump campaign meme now is that Trump
“doesn’t hurl insults” and unjust
accusations and “shows maturity” as a
candidate. Of course after announcing this, the very next morning Trump
immediately goes to tweeting insults just like an immature third grader would.

In the first above tweet, just hours after Conway and Preibus’
proclamations, Sunday night Trump tweets that MSNBCs commentator, Donny Deutsch
is little, nasty, a failure and irrelevant.

Besides calling someone criminal when
you’re under federal investigation for fraud in two states, sounds at least a
tad ironic if not moronic don’t ya think...

Currently it’s been revealed that the
Trump campaign recently bought up 8, 500 copies of his new book, ‘Crippled
America: How to Make America Great Again’ at the tune of $55,000. Now that’s
great to buy up your own books to artificially increase sales, but use your own
money; Trump used campaign donation money and that is illegal according to a
‘Federal Election Commission’ filing.

Speaking of donor money, Trump has
jacked up the price of using his office and is having donors pay for it.

Trump has unjustly accused both Hillary
and Bernie for inciting violence by sending loads of unruly protesters to his
campaign stumps. As far as violence goes, Trump and the people he surrounds
himself and his campaign with, at his speeches and on tweets attests to his very
own brand of inciting violence.

On numerous occasions Trump gave the OK
and instructions for his supporters to beat up protesters at his rallies. In
referring to Michael Bloomberg during his DNC speech, at a Davenport, Iowa
rally, Trump said, “I wanted to hit a
couple of those speakers so hard. I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very
little guy. I was gonna hit this guy so hard his head would spin, he wouldn’t
know what the hell happened.” Of course all bullies pick on the “little guy.”

Why, the Don even stands behind his
veterans’ adviser, Al Baldasaro’s bold statement to violence, who broadcasted
that Hillary should be put in front of a firing squad and shot. After
Baldasaro’s wishes were aired, Trump gave an interview to New Hampshire’s NH1
News analyst, Paul Steinhauser. After being asked what his reaction was to
Baldasaro’s remarks, Trump claimed he knew nothing about his words, but instead
of professing if the allegations were true, he would punish Baldasaro in some
form, Trump merely stated, “Well, I
didn’t know that but I will tell you he’s a very fine person. We’re incredibly
grateful for his support, but we don’t agree with his comments.” At first,
he wasn’t aware of Baldasaro’s comments, then acknowledges them as if he was
aware of them, but praises him anyway while stating he (we) don’t agree. For sure a total contrast in principles I’d say.

Trump portrays himself as tough and to
make his toughness persona stick, rarely smiles, instead, wearing a constant
frown of aggrandized seriousness. He always portrays Hillary as weak and timid.
On that thought, once viewing the quick video below comparing the two in their
responses to a perceived threat, judge for yourself of who displays more stolid
valor.

Trump is a pansy. He literally flipped
his wig. Yepper sports fan, he wigged out when the protester charged his
podium. On the other hand, Hillary remained calm wearing a smile the whole time.

Trump’s lone protester was Thomas
DiMassimo, an ardent Christian anti-racist protester. He claims, before he was
intercepted by secret service agents, was that he only wanted to take the
microphone from Trump and preach about the ills of racism. Apparently that is
backed up for he led an anti-racist protest on April, 2015, is an ardent
supporter of ‘Black Lives Matter’ and once burned a confederate flag. Trump
later, without any merit, claims DiMassimo works for ISIS.

Eric Trump

Hillary was charged by a group of animal
rights protesters. As she said in the video, if they want to complain about
animal rights they ought to go after Trump and his sons and for good reason
too. For ya see, the Trump boys are avid big game hunters.

Donald Trump Jr

Greenmail or greenmailing is a neologism
word derived from a word it has strong relations to. That word is blackmail.
Greenmailing is purchasing a majority share of a public corporation to
challenge its executives in a corporate takeover with full intentions that the
officers will be forced to buy back the shares at a premium. Thus removing the
greenmailer threat which returns the shares back to the firm, but at such a lucrative
price the greenmailer makes off with hundreds of millions more than what he/she
paid for in the original share price purchase.

Trump has conducted greenmail. Yes it’s
legal, but highly unethical, ya know just like the EpiPen pharmaceutical,
‘Mylan’ and Martin Shkreli who bought the rights to sell the drug, Daraprim
which treats parasitic infections and the nervous system from HIV. Both Mylan
and Shkreli jacked up their prices 500% and 5,000% respectively, significantly
affecting the poor and afflicted in obtaining the life sustaining prescriptions.

Change in life overall is a good thing
although most folk are hesitant for it to occur. The reason being is that we’re
set in our ways; more comfortable with a routine format, for it’s what we know.
But change just for the sake of change can be disastrous. Donald Trump fits
that description of change to a tee. Besides, Hillary, who no one speaks of in
this context, fits the scenario of change in American politics far better than
just another grumpy old white male. After all, if elected she will be the first
female U.S. president. That’s change I feel is long overdue. It is history
making.

Of course as far as gibberish goes Trump
is the equivalent Sara Palin male. Here is an actual excerpt from one of his
South Carolina speeches. See if you can decipher for I really can’t.

“Look,
having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr.
John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton
School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you're a conservative
Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat,
they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it's
true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a
number—that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went

there,
went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials
all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear
deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it's not
as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that
to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would
explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have
thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it
used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I would
have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you
know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now
than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years—but
the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and
they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

What does all this dribble actually
mean? Is this coded message for what it boils down to in his token phrase, Make America Great Again?

Reap
the Sown:

Former Republican senator, Jack Kemp
once said something like this, “People
don’t care what you know until they know that you care.”

That Kemp phrase might have been true
once upon a time in the Republican Party an era ago, but today it is exempt.
The foot soldier Republican (and call them what you will: Tea Party,
right-wing, old white men, nationalist) don’t care much for the facts; they
simply want their biases patted. The Republican Party is most definitely not
fighting for their interests; only for their votes just like Trump is now
attempting with African Americans.

I call this phenomenon the ‘equivalency
shortage’ in that there is no valence in equality; it’s exclusive. The average
Republican who has been hurting just as much as anyone else in the middleclass
or lower from Republican economic and social policies, don’t care; they simply
want to hear about scapegoats to blame their self-inflicted dilemmas on. The
GOP politician gladly will serve them that tray. There is no equal valence here,
just a judgmental bias to paint blame on and thwart others they deem as not a
true American or patriot. Thought of inclusivity is drowned out by exclusive
messaging in errantly defining who the real American is.

It doesn’t matter that there are untold minorities
and those that worship another religion that have died fighting and serving
this country and are stellar citizens, if they aren’t white Christian, then, in
their minds how can they be a true patriot of this nation.

The GOP has offered up a barrage of
scapegoats in serving up the poor, minorities, Latino immigrants, hurting
refugees, non-Christians and oh yes, liberals as fodder for their voters’
angst. It is these groups’ fault for the way you’re hurting in America now.
Never mind that the GOP caters only to the rich, get rid of these groups and
you’ll make America great again where you can prosper under the 1% wealthiest
authoritarian rule.

On why middleclass and poor whites
continually vote against their interests in pulling the polling booth’s ‘R’
lever, I would suggest reading an excellent ‘Truthout’ article by Arlie Russell
Hochschild. Click here to read.

At any time of national crisis, values
are tested. That is when American values should shine at its brightest.
Unfortunately fear mongering is currently dimming that brightness. With the
political fodder of Benghazi, Republicans took hold to gain political brownie
points. Instead of aiding in bringing the nation together, they chose a
divisive path, simply to gain political clout.

For sure, it is sad that four Americans
needlessly died and questions needed answering, but the GOP’s ploy wasn’t to
seek out better opportunities to learn from, they went down the path of
accusations and witch hunts. But where was the GOPs outpouring of 54 folks
being killed from 13 terrorists embassy attacks under their rule during the
Republican administration of the W. Bush/Cheney years? That is not even
including 9/11. Democrats didn’t use that as political capital, no they helped
lead the nation responding as a whole to seek out the perpetrators and begin
the healing.

I grew up in a West Texas small town,
where if anyone (and I do mean anyone) needed a helping hand you had better be
the first to offer with no questions asked. Apparently, lifting up one another
for the greater good is no longer in fashion under Republican thinking.

The Trumpettes: Eric, Don Jr & Don Sr

Trump is literally and figuratively a
symbol of periorbital whiteness. His racist and biased overtones attract the
right-wing. Anyone that attempts to say Trump will win the Black and Latino
vote are delusional, but for Trump and his campaign to say it, is downright
obnoxious.

Trump’s whole foreign policy is to build
an unreal virtual wall to keep foreigners out. His whole campaign is centered
wholly around complaints of illegal immigrants when he himself has broken
immigration laws.

In Iowa this past Saturday at a stump
speech, Trump reaffirmed his commitment to crack the whip on foreigners in the
U.S. who overstay their visit visas. He also stated, “When any American citizen loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the
rights of that American citizen have been violated.”

Of course he doesn’t mention his New
York modeling agency, ‘Trump Model Management’ profiting by hiring foreign
models with tourist visas cheaper than they would have in hiring home grown
models. These noncitizen models were not permitted to work here. Financial and
immigration records bear this out and are in clear violation of existing
immigration laws. With an existing lawsuit, Trump could be fined in court
$16,000 for each foreigner he illegally hired.

This flies past the Republican radar,
for to them, pretty skinny models as illegal immigrants is one thing as opposed
to brown skinned family immigrants as totally being perceived as another matter.

The whole point to bringing all this up
is that Trump is not an original; he’s not change from the Republican, RHINO,
or conservative policies, for he is directly from the GOP mold. This created
Republican Trumpenstein, via a loud megaphone simply has brought out into the
great wide open divide all undercover Republican policies that have been
stewing for decades.

Republicans are on average biased and
fueled by fear mongering, false conspiracies and rhetorical myths. Trumpenstein
has emerged exposing the Republican doctrine of divide and conquer.

Post-era Trump, to expose the GOP, ya
had to be a fly on the wall of their concealed room during private and
secretive Republican conversations. Today, all ya have to do is go to a Trump
rally.

Republicans are wholly to blame for the
Trumpatosis that is in a cancerous way spreading throughout the nation. This
division, for sure Republicans will blame on liberals, but it was Lee Atwater
decades ago during the Reagan and HW Bush years that kick started the rifting
of a nation. On his dying bed, Atwater so admitted to this and apologized for
his ineptitude to country. But the spread had already taken hold. The torch was
passed on to Newt Gingrich spreading divisive unethical policies that then even
some Republican congressmen couldn’t tolerate and he was forced to resign. Tom
DeLay then took up the torch in the divisiveness mantle actually referring to
Democrats as the enemy.

Now, divisiveness is so widespread
within the Republican fold it is par for course. How the GOP for years have
tried to demean Hillary Clinton has been so abrasive, but no matter in every
allegation tossed at her, Clinton has been vindicated.

The constant roar of Republican
subliminal and loudspeaker messages of “lying
Hillary...distrustful Hillary”
has been charged by Republican bogusness to the point that most Americans feel
she actually is a pathological liar and untrustworthy. It is flatly shameful to
try and destroy someone like that with conspiracies of their own lies.

Once Obama was elected, but before he
was even sworn into office, Senator Mitch McConnell and his cast made a pact to
never agree with anything Obama would want no matter if it would aid the nation
if they did agree with him or harm the nation when they didn’t. Then they blame
the divisiveness squarely on President Obama’s shoulders.

Why even right now, Republican Trey
‘Double Standard’ Gowdy is opening up yet another ceaseless hearing with no
information to allude to of Clinton’s e-mails on whether she perjured congress
or not over the e-mails. It’s funny though that they totally ignore the
millions of deleted e-mails conducted by the W. Bush/Cheney administration when
officials used a gwb.43.com RNC private server. Why even Gowdy himself won’t
acknowledge whether he has or hasn’t used his private domain treygowdy.com for
congressional tasks. It’s supposed to be used only for campaign work. Gowdy
won’t even elaborate on this personal server whether it is secured or not.

If you don’t think hate and racism are
rooted deep in Republican politics, think again. In Trump’s book ‘The Art of
the Deal’ Trump actually brags about punching out a second grade teacher and
nationalist Republicans applaud that behavior.

As far as the street Republican goes,
there are innumerable examples, but this one is of ex-cop, Jim Stachowiak, a
nationalist Republican who of course claims he’s a ‘proud patriot’ urging other
‘proud patriots’ to shoot dead ‘Black Lives Matters’ supporters.

We’ve already spoken of Trump’s Al
Baldasaro expressing Hillary should be put in front of a firing squad and shot,
but there is also a West Virginia Republican lawmaker, Michael Folk that has
jumped onto that bandwagon insisting that “Hillary
be hung on the Washington Mall” for all to see.

Maine’s Republican governor, Paul LePage
ridiculously states that people of color are over 90% of America’s drug dealers
and feels that “people of color are the
enemies and should be shot.” A Democrat legislature criticized him for the
comment, in which LePage left a message on his phone expressing, “This is Gov. Paul Richard LePage. I would
like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you
c**ksucker. I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve
spent my life helping black people and you little son of a bitch, socialist
c**ksucker. You… I need you to… just friggin’. I want you to record this and
make it public because I am after you.”

In Texas, the Republican chairman of
Travis County, Robert Morrow, to prove how he disdains political correctness,
left this tweet below for all to read.

Now I can just imagine the reaction of
the Republican Party if a minority holding political office would have said the
reverse in having Trump snuffed, or that all whites are drug lords, or
repeating the phrase, white trash, white trash, white trash, honky, honky,
honky...

About Me

Entered the world as Bruce John Anderson. With a dad as Bruce and two John dangrads (grandpas), grandma thought it too confusing, hence the nickname B.J. I've had ever since I was six months old; yet some folks refer to me as simply...The Beej.

Born in Stephenville, Texas on the Sunday morn of 11/09/52 and while growing up in the Fort Worth area, I have a West Texas flair about perception in life. Currently, I’m a misplaced Texan residing in NW Pa. and that is OK, for one Texan is about equal odds to one Yankee state. This ol' Texan does indeed love the snow up here. Snow is about the only thing I know of that can even make a junkyard look pretty.

Graduated: Trinity HS (Euless, TX) in ‘71 and later from The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in ‘84 with a Bachelors in geology.

Had my first set of children Amber (1971) & Jason (1974) as a young man and my second set Claire (2003) & Paige (2005) I had as an old man. Am married to sweetness in Veronica my wife.

I extol the science disciplines working as a microbiologist, geophysicist, chemist & geologist.

Work has taken me into 39 countries. It’s amazing witnessing firsthand the varying cultures and environs, but prefer the myriad similarities; the old man sitting on a tree stump in front of his central Sudan mud hut was the same old man sitting in his favorite rocker on a West Texas front porch; both just sitting back watching the world go by while pondering it all.

My motto in life is don't take it so seriously, it's not like it's permanent.